The gigantic explosion in Beirut on August 4, 2020 tore through homes, blowing off doors and windows, toppling cupboards, and sent flying books, shelves, lamps and everything else. Within a few seconds, more than a quarter of a million people of the Lebanese capital's residents were left with homes unfit to live in. (15 PHOTOS by AFP, AP, Reuters)
PHOTO PACKAGE: Lebanon Lost Homes
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Hasan Al Armali, holds a wall clock that was stoped working at the time of the Tuesday's explosion in the seaport of Beirut, poses for a photograph at his bedroom inside his destroyed apartment, in Beirut , Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020.
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Lebanon Lost Homes Photo Essay
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Alain Shoucair, 38, poses for a photograph as he holds his broken guitar at his destroyed apartment after Tuesday's explosion in the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020.
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Waleed Mokbel, 78, poses for a photograph inside his destroyed apartment after Tuesday's explosion in the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020.